They're very common in the Sacramento area. I've seen a flock of them strolling around pecking in the lawn of a business park, and we very nearly hit one on one of our first driving tours with the local Porsche Club. We use the FRS (e.g. Motorola Talkabout) radios to communicate on tours, but they can be hard to hear over road noise & the stereo, and they can be hard to understand. We thought we heard the word "turkey" amid some otherwise unintelligible banter among other cars in the group. No sooner had we thought, "Why are these people calling each other names?!" than we passed an actual turkey on the side of the road. A bit late, we realized the radio call had not been a case of verbal abuse, but rather a road hazard warning, as they would have called out for bicycles on the shoulder or oncoming trucks. Granted my car is low to the ground and I'm not tall, but I think the turkey and I were eye-to-eye.
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